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About Hooker Furniture Corp.

Hooker Furniture Corporation engages in the design, import, manufacture, and marketing of residential household furniture for sale to wholesale and retail merchandisers located principally in North America.

The companys wood furniture product categories include home entertainment, home office, accent, dining, bedroom and bath furniture under the Hooker Furniture brand, and youth furniture sold under the Opus Designs by Hooker brand.

The companys residential upholstered seating companies include Cherryville, North Carolina based Bradington-Young, LLC, a specialist in upscale motion and stationary leather furniture; and Bedford, Virginia based Sam Moore Furniture LLC, a specialist in upscale occasional chairs with an emphasis on cover-to-frame customization.

The company markets wood and metal furniture under the Hooker Furniture, Envision and Opus Designs by Hooker brand names, and upholstered furniture under the Bradington-Young, Sam Moore and Envision brand names. Furniture is designed and marketed as stand-alone products or products within small multi-piece groups or broader collections offering a unifying style, design theme and finish. Hooker Furniture collections include Beladora, North Hampton and Kensington. Products also are marketed by product category, such as The Great Entertainers, SmartWorks Home Office and Opus Designs Youth Furniture by Hooker.

The companys wood and metal furniture is typically designed for and marketed in the medium to high price range. Under the Bradington-Young upholstery brand, the company offers a variety of residential leather and fabric upholstered furniture and specializes in leather reclining and motion chairs, sofas, club chairs and executive desk chairs. Under the Sam Moore upholstery brand, the company offers upscale occasional chairs with an emphasis on fabric-to-frame customization in the upper-medium to high-end prices. Domestically produced upholstered furniture is targeted at the upper-medium and upper price ranges, while imported upholstered furniture is targeted at the medium and upper-medium price ranges. The company is a full-line resource for retailers, offering furniture collections and products for virtually every room of the home.

In home office, the company offers full sized executive office solutions. It also focuses on smaller-scaled executive desks and credenza/hutches at 66 feet wide (compared to widths of 72 feet and up) to fit smaller scaled homes.

The company sells furniture through approximately 75 independent sales representatives to retailers of residential home furnishings, who are broadly dispersed throughout North America, including independent furniture retailers such as Furnitureland South of Jamestown/High Point, N.C., Mathis Brothers of Oklahoma and California, Baers Furniture of South Florida, and Berkshire Hathaway-owned companies Star Furniture, Jordans Furniture, Nebraska Furniture Mart and R.C. Willey; department stores such as Macys and Dillards; regional chain stores such as Raymour & Flanigan and Havertys; national chain stores such as Z Gallerie and Crate & Barrel; and catalog merchandisers such as Frontgate and the Horchow Collection, a unit of Neiman Marcus.

Customers

The companys principal customers are retailers of residential home furnishings who are dispersed throughout North America. Its customers include independent furniture stores, specialty retailers, department stores, catalog merchants, interior designers and national and regional chains.

History

Hooker Furniture Corporation was founded in 1924.

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SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?

How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?

How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?

How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?

Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?

Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?

Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?

Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?

Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

What composes a threat of substitute products and services?

Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?

What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?

How big is the bargaining power of buyers?

How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

Tangible resources

Financial

Physical

Technological

Organizational

Intangible resources

Human

Innovation and Creativity

Reputation

Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are: